Guilford County Social Services
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From: Say NO to vile lying stalking filth on 27 Sep 2005 15:52 Guilford County Social Services VISION To work in partnership with the community toward the empowerment of individuals and families, eliminating poverty and family violence. MISSION Using a holistic approach to assure safety, promote self sufficiency and permanency in the lives of adults, children, and families through collaboration and partnership within the community. PROGRAMS (Information Last Updated August, 2003) Adoption Services Food Stamps Adult Care Home Licensure Guardianship Services Adult Day Care/Health Services Guilford Adolescent Prevention Services (GAPS) Adult Foster Care (Placement) In-Home Aide Services Adult Protective Services Medicaid Adult Services Program Integrity (Fraud Investigation) Care Management Program Representative Payee Child Day Care Services For the Blind Children's Foster Care Services Intake Child Protective Services Special Assistance In-Home Demonstration Project Emergency Assistance Work First Employment Services Enhanced Adult Care, Home Personal Care, and Case Management Services Work First Family Assistance Family Recruitment for Foster and Adoptive Homes Adoption Services Greensboro: 641-3760 - High Point: 845-6701 Purpose: To help children whose parents are incapable of assuming or continuing parental responsibilities, become part of a new family by establishing the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who are not related by birth, with the same mutual rights and obligations that exist between children and their birth parents. To respond to Court orders, determine appropriate adoptive placements for children, and supervise adoptive placements. Target Population: Children whose parents are incapable of assuming or continuing parental responsibilities. Program Services: Initiate legal termination of or accept relinquishment of parental rights. Report to the Court on progress and well-being of children placed for adoption and fulfill related court orders. Place and integrate children into adoptive families. Monitor adoptive placements, complete adoption searches, complete Orders for Report to the Court and independent adoption studies for indigent families. Counsel women on problem pregnancy situations. Provide post-adoptive services. Operate, monitor, and maintain Adoption Assistance for children with special needs. Eligibility Requirements: Child who is, or may subsequently become, legally free for adoption. Legal Authority: Adoption: Chapter 48 of the General Statutes of North Carolina - GS 108A-14 (6); GS 131D-10.1 et. Seq.; GS 1310-10 et. Seq.; GS 110-57.1 et. Seq.; Adoption Assistance: GS 108A-49; GS 108A-50. TOP OF PAGE Adult Care Home Licensure Greensboro: 641-3806 - High Point: 845-3806 Purpose: To monitor a licensed home to assure compliance with the North Carolina Rules for the Licensing of Adult Care Homes, to provide consultation and technical assistance to home administrators for initial licensure requirements, maintenance of licensure standards, and renewal of license. To assist with investigating violations of licensure standards. Target Population: Adults 18 years or older who meet qualifications of Home Administrators and are approved by the Division of Facility Services of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources to have the responsibility for the total operation of a licensed home. Program Services: Monthly monitoring visits to document compliance with licensure standards, investigation of complaints of violations of standards or reports of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of residents, report violations of residents' Bill of Rights, provide consultation and technical assistance to administrators and staff to improve the quality of care for residents. Eligibility Requirements: Legal adults must meet criteria for operating a licensed home. Applicants must have an existing structure or plans for new construction that could meet licensure requirements. Legal Authority: North Carolina General Statutes 108-A, 10 NCAC 42; GS 143B-153; 10 NCAC 42A; 10 NCAC 43L .0207 SSBG Plan. The Division of Facility Services is the licensing authority. TOP OF PAGE Adult Day Care/Health Services Greensboro: 641-3727 - High Point: 845-3727 Purpose: To support adults to remain living independently, reduce social isolation, loneliness, and stimulate interest in leisure activities. Target Population: Adults who are aged, disabled, or frail. Program Services: Planned activities designed to meet individual needs and interests. Nutritious mid-day meal and snacks to meet dietary needs. Transportation to facilities, medical appointments and leisure activities. Eligibility Requirements: Applicant must be 18 years old and require services to remain functional in an independent home environment to receive services through Social Services Block Grant, or be 60 or older and have physical, mental, and social needs which can be met through Adult Day Care to prevent premature institutional placement. Legal Authority: Titles XIX and XX of the Social Security Act. TOP OF PAGE Adult Foster Care (Placement) Greensboro: 641-3806 - High Point: 845-3806 Purpose: To assist aging and disabled individuals, their families, or representatives to find substitute homes or residential health care facilities suitable to their needs when they are unable to remain in their current living situations. Target Population: Adults unable to maintain themselves in their own homes independently with or without available community or family support. Adults living in substitute care homes, residential health care facilities or institutions who need assistance in relocating, adjusting, or maintaining placement. Program Services: Pre-placement services including initial screening, assessment, supportive counseling, referrals to other agencies. Placement services to locate and secure placement in a suitable setting. Post placement services to assist with adjustment and to obtain needed services. Eligibility Requirements: Adults 65 years or older or disabled and in need of the service, without regard to income. Legal Authority: N.C. General Statues 143-B - 153 and 10- NCAC 42A; NCAC 43L ..0207; SSBG Plan. TOP OF PAGE Adult Protective Services Greensboro: 641-3269 - High Point: 845-7861 Purpose: To ensure that protection is provided to disabled adults who are being abused, neglected or exploited. Target Population: Disabled adults over the age of 18. Program Services: Evaluation of disabled adult situations. Support for caregivers of disabled adults. Referrals to appropriate agencies to stop abuse, neglect or exploitation. Eligibility Requirements: Based on need. Adults who are reported to be abused, neglected or exploited. Without regard to income. Legal Authority: North Carolina General Statutes 108-A, Article 6; GS 143B - 153; NCAC 43L .0207; 10 NCAC 432V; the Protection of the Abused, Neglected, or Exploited Disabled Adult Act of 1973, as amended in 1975. TOP OF PAGE Adult Services Greensboro: 641-3014 - High Point: 845-7879 Purpose: To provide a portal of entry for individuals seeking services who are 18 years of age and older and are disabled and receiving SSI, SSA, or Veterans' benefits. Mission Statement: To assess the needs of individuals requesting services and provide quality direct and/or indirect services in an effort to prevent neglect, abuse, exploitation, to attain or maintain self-sufficiency and self-esteem and network with departmental and community resources to improve the standard of living and promote independence. Target Population Any Guilford County citizen who is elderly, handicapped (physically or mentally), or substance abusers. Disabled adults 18 years of age or older with SSI, SSA, or Veterans benefits. Program Services:: Social work counseling. General adult services. Service assessments - information and referral. Limited transportation for medical and other essential needs. Special Assistance In-Home Aide demonstration project. Application to operate a Family Care Home. Housing assistance. At risk case management (housing, food, health services). Guardianship. Health support services. Work permits for children under age 18. In-Home Aide case management. Representative Payee. Adult Foster Care-placement in a Family Care, Assisted Living, or Skilled Nursing Facility. Adult Day Care. Adult Protective Services. Eligibility Requirements: Many services are rendered without regard to income, however, eligibility requirements must be met for other services. Verification may include income information, award letters, age, and others. Legal Authority: SSBG Plan; 10 NCAC 42L; GS 143-B-153; GS 35A; 10 NCAC 01L; NCAC 42L. TOP OF PAGE Care Management Program Greensboro: 641-3257 - High Point: 845-3257 Purpose: To provide professional assistance for older adults with complex care needs to assess needs, arrange and coordinate a package of services to enable the older adult to remain at home. Target Population: Functionally impaired older adults who are at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation and/or have complex care needs and who, due to a critical time factor and/or the complexity of services needed, are unable to access needed services to remain safely at home. Program Services: Assessments of medical and social needs, plan of care development, plan implementation through approved agencies. Eligibility Requirements: Recipients must be 60 years or older, have three or more impairments that interfere with activities of daily living and/or a significant cognitive impairment. There are no financial requirements. Legal Authority: North Carolina General Statute 1423 B-181.1(A) (11); Older Americans Act of 1965 as amended; 42 U.S.C. 3001 (Public Law 100-175) TOP OF PAGE Child Day Care Greensboro: 641-3129; 641-3715 - High Point: 845-6701 Purpose: To enable parents or responsible adults to maintain employment, to participate in a job training or educational program that will lead to employment, to provide care to children in need of protection, to enhance the development of children, and to facilitate the reunification of families, aid families in a crisis and prevent placement of children in foster care. Target Population: Children from birth through 17 years of age. Children 13 to 17 years old are usually children with special needs such as Cerebral Palsy, Downs Syndrome, etc. The families must be employed, seeking employment, preparing for employment or in need of assistance to protect children from abuse or neglect or assistance for developmental reasons. Program Services: Pays for child care in a licensed child care center, a registered family day care home, or an individual child care arrangement. Eligibility Requirements: Citizens are served with income up to 75% of the state median income. Some childcare assistance is provided without regard to income. Legal Authority: Title IV-A of the Social Security Act; Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act; and N. C. General Statutes. TOP OF PAGE Children's Foster Care Greensboro: 641-6847 West; 641-3739 East - High Point: 845-6701 Purpose: To ensure that safe temporary care is available and provided to children of Guilford County who are in need of protection, and are in the legal custody of the Department of Social Services. Target Population: Any child who has been adjudicated dependent, neglected, abused, undisciplined, or delinquent. Also, children who have been released by their parents for adoption, children who have been orphaned or abandoned and there are no family members to care for them, and children whose parents have voluntarily given the Department placement responsibility due to problems of behavior or family conditions that would preclude their remaining in the home safely. Program Services: Placements - Arranging for appropriate placement in licensed facilities, monitoring and supervising the child's progress in the placement. Reunification - Planning with family and coordinating services to have children returned to their own homes as quickly as possible. The goal is to accomplish this within one year. Case Management - Social casework and other treatment services to facilitate the child's psychological adjustment and to assist the parents or other responsible relatives to improve conditions and enable the child to return to his own home. Coordination of Community Resources - Collaborating with community agencies who serve the needs of children and families such as the Public Health and Mental Health Departments, the Courts, Vocational Rehabilitation Programs, Developmental Evaluation Centers, Day Care Centers, Schools, family and children's services agencies, etc., to ensure that appropriate services are available to meet the needs of children in foster care and to facilitate permanence. Team Decision Making (TDM) - Case decisions around placement from pre-petition through adoption are made by a team comprised of parents, family members, family supports, involved service providers, Guardian ad Litem, and the substitute caregiver. Shared Parenting - Begins with an introductory meeting between the birth parents, the substitute caregiver and the social worker where information on the child is shared, relationship building is begun and plans for future sharing of the parenting efforts are laid forth. Eligibility Requirements: No eligibility requirements other than the Department must have legal custody of the child or placement authority as voluntarily granted by the parents. Legal Authority: Public Law 96-272 and North Carolina General Statutes. TOP OF PAGE Child Protective Services Greensboro: 641-3795 - High Point: 845-7866 Purpose: To protect Guilford County's children, strengthen the ability of families to protect and care for their own children, minimize harm to children and youth, and to ensure permanence in children's lives. To support intact families, when appropriate, to stabilize the family situation and strengthen the family's ability to fulfill parental responsibility for children. This legally mandated service encompasses two approaches to service delivery, known as The Multiple Response System. The Traditional Investigative approach is used in cases of abuse and dependency, however in certain neglect cases The Family Assessment approach is used. In the Family Assessment Approach the family's strengths and needs are assessed with the caregivers and a plan to address the needs is developed using a team approach. Generally, services are preventive, rehabilitative, and non-punitive, with efforts directed toward identifying and treating the cause of the maltreating behavior. Target Population: All children from birth to 18 years who are abused, neglected, or dependent. Any report alleging abuse, neglect, or dependency must be investigated to determine if the child(ren) need(s) protection. Program Services: Receive reports of abuse, neglect, and dependency. Make a prompt and thorough investigation to ascertain the facts of the situation, the extent of the injury or condition resulting from abuse, neglect, or dependency, and the risk of harm to the child to determine whether protective services are required or a petition should be initiated. Provide services to prevent removal of children from their homes and strengthen family life. Invoke the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for the child(ren)'s removal and placement in a safe home (relatives or foster care) if children are at risk of harm. Eligibility Requirements: All children and their families are eligible for protective services regardless of income. The provision of services is based solely on the child's immediate or continuing need. By statute, agencies must provide protective services twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No fees are imposed for protective services or other services provided to facilitate protective services. Legal Authority: North Carolina General Statute 7A-542; 10 NCAC 411.0300; U. S. Public Law 96-272; the Social Security Act. TOP OF PAGE Emergency Assistance Greensboro: 641-4696 - High Point: 845-7756 Purpose: Provide short-term assistance to citizens in crisis when no other funds are available to prevent homelessness, placement of children out of the home, or further risk to health or crisis. Target Population: All citizens of Guilford County experiencing a crisis with no other resources. Program Services: Payments by voucher or two-party check to vendors for client emergencies for rent, utilities, or food until the crisis is over or other resources are available. Various funding sources from Federal, State and County sources support the program. Eligibility Requirements: Families must be experiencing a crisis and have assets insufficient to meet immediate needs. Legal Authority: North Carolina General Statute 108A. TOP OF PAGE Enhanced Adult Care, Home Personal Care, and Case Management Services Greensboro: 641-3806 - High Point: 845-3806 Purpose: To provide reimbursement to licensed Adult Care Homes for providing enhanced personal care assistance to Special Assistance Medicaid-eligible residents and to provide case management services to authorized residents, their families, and the facilities. Target Population: Adult Care Home Special Assistance Medicaid-eligible residents who require extensive to total staff assistance with program identified activities of daily living. Program Services: Ensure adequate and appropriate personal case assistance to allow them to remain in the home instead of moving to a higher, more expensive level of care. Case management includes direct services to the residents and their family members, linkage and coordination of Medicaid covered community resources, evaluating and authorizing program eligibility, monitoring the on-going needs and changes of residents to ensure adequate care plan services provision, and providing consultation and program support to the facility staff to develop responses to the needs of residents and policy implementation. Eligibility Requirements: Must be a Special Assistance Medicaid-eligible resident of a licensed adult care home who requires extensive or total personal care assistance. Legal Authority: SSBG Plan. TOP OF PAGE Family Recruitment for Foster and Adoptive Homes Greensboro: 641-7632 - High Point: 845-7632 Purpose: To recruit, train, and license families who wish to adopt or become foster parents for children in the agency's care. To initiate and maintain a supportive relationship with foster parents. Target Population: Any adult over the age of 21 who is interested in making a difference in a child's life by fostering or adopting a child. Program Services: Provide additional information and accept requests from potential foster and adoptive parents. Initiate the training and licensing process for interested families. Conduct the required training courses for foster and adoptive parents. Complete home studies on families interested in becoming foster and/or adoptive homes. Assist adoption workers in placing children for adoption. Monitor and re-license foster and adoptive homes. Eligibility Requirements: To become a foster or adoptive parent, you must be over the age of 21 and financially stable. The applicant must also certain meet safety requirements such as criminal, and child abuse screening. There are no preferences made to race or ethnic origin, educational background, marital status, occupation, or whether you rent or own your home. Legal Authority: Chapter 48 of the General Statutes of North Carolina - GS 131D-10.1 et. Seq.; GS 110-57.1 et. Seq. TOP OF PAGE Food Stamps Greensboro: 641-6996 - High Point: 845-7609 Purpose: To raise the nutritional level among low income households, increasing the purchasing power of these households, and in turn promote and strengthen the agricultural economy. Target Population: Households earning less than the standard poverty level for their household size as determined by Congress. Program Services: Provides Food Stamps to purchase food for human consumption. Eligibility Requirements: Household incomes must be less than the poverty standard for a household of the number of individuals in the home, must be a U. S. Citizen or Naturalized Citizen or qualify under certain restricted alien guidelines, must register with the Employment Security Commission and find work unless exempt for disability or specified family needs. Students pursuing a degree beyond high school are eligible only if if working a specific number of hours per week, or enrolled in a work study program, or have dependent children under age 12 or receive Work First services. Legal Authority: Food Stamp Act; P. L. USC 2011; 7 CFR 271.4; GS 108-A-25 TOP OF PAGE Guardianship Services Greensboro: 641-3806 - High Point: 845-3806 PurposeTarget Population: Persons who have been legally declared by the court to be incompetent and have been designated a ward of the Director of the Department of Social Services. Program Services: Assistance and decision making for living arrangements, money management, medical care, and all day-to-day living needs of the ward. Eligibility Requirements: Anyone is eligible for guardianship services. Access route is through the County Clerk of Court's office. The department does not initiate legal proceedings except in active protective services situations. Legal Authority: : N.C. General Statute 143B-153; GS 35A; NCAC 01L; NCAC 42L, SSBG Plan. TOP OF PAGE Guilford Adolescent Prevention Services (GAPS) Greensboro: 641-6820 - High Point: 845-4666 Purpose: The GAPS Program exists to help meet the demands for comprehensive services for Guilford County's undisciplined and delinquent juvenile population whose behaviors have put them at risk for out of home placement. The goal is to maintain the family unit by providing youth and their guardians with intensive wraparound services that will help meet the needs of these youth who are having trouble at home, school, and with the Juvenile Justice System. This is a voluntary program and there is no charge for participation in the GAPS Program. The GAPS program works with juveniles who are referred by Juvenile Court Counselors or by Order of the Presiding Juvenile Judge. Program Services: Intensive, in-home services that are community-based and work to "wrap-around" a youth and their family. Services are provided until the youth has successfully been terminated from court supervision. Individual and family counseling to monitor stabilization of the family unit. Completion of risk assessments to determine the level of risk for both the youth and their family and needs-based assessments to coordinate community-based services that will best meet the family's needs. Family unification/Section 8 Housing services that serve as a community-based alternative to allow the family unit to remain intact. Eligibility Requirements: All referrals to the GAPS Program come directly from the Office of Juvenile Justice. Youths referred must have been adjudicated by the Juvenile Courts as delinquent or undisciplined. Legal Authority:Public Law 96-272 and North Carolina General Statutes. TOP OF PAGE In-Home Aide Services Greensboro: 641-3717 - High Point: 845-3717 Purpose: To assist adults and their families to attain or maintain self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life. Services are intended to: Prevent or ameliorate conditions of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and dependency. Prevent deterioration of functional capacity and maintain, strengthen and safeguard family functioning. Avoid premature substitute care, family disruption and unnecessary out-of-home placement. Support the return to the home from substitute care. The intent of this program is to assist, but not replace, family members in carrying out their responsibilities for those persons needing care and support. Target Population: Adults who are unable to carry out essential tasks of dai ly living or the instrumental activities of daily living or both, who have no responsible person available to perform these tasks, and who need the service in order to remain in their own homes. It also includes functionally impaired persons whose primary care givers need relief from everyday care giving responsibilities in order for the impaired individuals to remain at home. Program Services: Assist adults with essential home management tasks such as cleaning, laundry, food preparation; and personal care or supervision. Eligibility Requirements: Persons determined to be in need of the service without regard to income. There may be a cost-sharing requirement based on the recipient's income level. Legal Authority: SSBG Plan; North Carolina General Statutes 143 B-153; 10 NCAC 43L.0207; 10 NCAC 42H; 10 NCAC 42J. TOP OF PAGE Medicaid ADULT - Greensboro: 641-3222 - High Point: 845-7771; FAMILY AND CHILDREN - Greensboro: 641-3071 Purpose: To pay medical expenses for eligible aged, blind, and disabled individuals and families with dependent children. Mission Statement: To assure that low income persons have adequate health care services to prevent disease and ease pain and suffering and to enhance the development of children. Target Population: Low income aged, blind, and disabled adults and families with dependent children who cannot afford medical services who meet certain eligibility criteria. Program Services: Medicaid will pay for treatment in a hospital, doctor's office, dental care, prescription drugs, transportation to a health care facility, and long term residential nursing care. Eligibility Requirements: Aged persons 65 years or older, legally blind, or disabled according to Social Security definition of disability and having income lower than a state scale for a family of their number. Others may be Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (MQB-Q) who are enrolled in Medicare Part A and/or Part B, or those who are enrolled in Part A only may have Medicare premiums paid, or individuals in a skilled nursing care facility or an intermediate care facility or an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded who have been in the facility or hospital for thirty days of continuous care and all Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients. The Family and Children's Medicaid Program is targeted to families in which there is continued unemployment. Specific programs are directed toward Infants and Children, Pregnant Women, and Families with Dependent Children. There are income limits for each category of Medicaid. There are also reserve limits for each category of Medicaid except Medicaid for Pregnant Women, Medicaid for Infants and Children and NC Health Choice. Legal Authority: Title XIX of the Social Security Act and N. C. General Statute 108A. TOP OF PAGE Program Integrity (Fraud Investigation) Greensboro: 641-4636 - High Point: 845-7783 The Program Integrity Unit reviews program cases to insure proper application of policy and that benefit amounts are correct. If an incorrect payment has occurred, a determination is made if this was due to an intentional or unintentional act of the recipient or due to agency error. In either case, a claim is established and the recipient is contacted to arrange for repayment or in some cases the case is referred for prosecution of criminal action. Legal Authority: Title XIX of the Social Security Act and N. C. General Statute 108A. TOP OF PAGE Representative Payee Greensboro: 641-3738 - High Point: 845-3738 Purpose: To provide a stable lifestyle through management of funds for persons who are unable to manage their own funds. Target Population: Adults 18 years and older who are considered disabled and, due to the disability, lack the capacity to manage their money. This includes individuals who are disabled because of drug or alcohol abuse. Program Services: Provides money management services to assure that the individual's income is used for their benefit for housing, food, clothing, counseling, case management, and a more stable lifestyle. Eligibility Requirements: Individuals must be considered disabled according to Social Security guidelines and have no family or other person who is willing to provide this assistance. Legal Authority: TOP OF PAGE Services For the Blind Greensboro: 641-4692 - High Point: 845-4692 Purpose: To enable visually impaired persons to regain or maintain a level of safety and independence and remain in their current living and work situations. Target Population: Persons of all ages who are documented to have visual acuities of 20/70- or less or who have a vision disorder that may lead to legal blindness. Program Services: Adjustment services to adapt to visual impairment including counseling, direct teaching of communication skills, household chores, and mobility and adaptive aids, chore and personal care services, health support services. Individual and Family Adjustment Services including community involvement to meet specific needs. Employment and Training Services. Housing and Home Improvement Services. Information and Referral Services. Eligibility Requirements: Must have a visual impairment according to the legal definition. Legal Authority: N. C. General Statutes 143-B and 157. TOP OF PAGE Services Intake Greensboro: 641-4701 - High Point: 845-7879 Purpose: To provide a portal of entry for individuals seeking services through Guilford County who are 18 and over and not receiving SSI, SSA, or Veterans benefits, and families and children. Target Population: Any Guilford County citizen may request services. Program Services: Problem pregnancy (maternity home placements). Assessments. Limited transportation for medical and non-medical needs. Indigent burials. Eye care certification. Housing assistance. Work release. Health support. Work permits for minors. Representative payee for families and children. Eligibility Requirements: Many services are rendered without regard to incom e, however, eligibility requirements must be met for other services. Legal Authority: TOP OF PAGE Special Assistance In-Home Demonstration Project Greensboro: 641-3625 - High Point: 845-3625 Purpose: To provide assistance to residents of Guilford County 18 years of age or older who need Adult Care Home level of care, but who desire to live in their own home or other private living setting. Target Population: Guilford County residents 18 years of age or older who need Adult Care Home level of care and who meet certain income and Medicaid eligibility criteria, and who can, with appropriate services, have his/her health, safety and well being maintained at home. Program Services: Professional assessment of services needed for eligible applicants to enable them to remain safely at home and ongoing case management of services once applicant is approved. Eligibility Requirements:: Recipients must have a total countable monthly income of $739 per month or less, be eligible for Medicaid as a categorically needy aged, blind or disabled adult living in a private living arrangement and who could have their health/safety needs met at home with the help of Special Assistance/In-Home income supplement. Legal Authority: SL 1999-237, Section 11.21. TOP OF PAGE Work First Employment Services Greensboro: 641-3270 - High Point: 845-7848 Purpose: To reduce dependence on public assistance through assisting persons to become gainfully employed and self-supporting. Target Population: Anyone receiving or applying for cash assistance. Program Services: Short-term skills training. Human resource development classes. Steps to self-sufficiency training. Job search clubs. Job resource center. In-house job development. Child day care services. Eligibility Requirements: Any recipient of temporary cash assistance may receive these services. Applicants for assistance may also receive limited services. Legal Authority: Title IV-A of the Social Security Act; 42 USC 601 et. Seq.; G. S. 108A-27. TOP OF PAGE Work First Family Assistance Greensboro: 641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771 Purpose: ensure that all parents can provide their children with basic necessities and good health. Target Population: Children and their parents whose income and resources are below levels established by state policy. Program Services: Work First Cash Assistance - monthly check, medical assistance, and food assistance (Food Stamps). Eligibility Requirements: Children must be under 18 years old for Cash Assistance and be deprived of the care and support of one or both parents according to the state definition of deprivation. Children must be under 21 for medical assistance. Children must be under 18 and meet the deprivation requirements for their parents to receive medical assistance. All must be North Carolina residents and U. S. Citizens or legal permanent aliens. Pregnant women may be eligible for Medicaid which covers only prenatal and postnatal care regardless of age or deprivation, and even illegal aliens may qualify for 2 days to cover the delivery of a new born. Each program has income limits and some programs have resource limits. Many cash assistance families are automatically eligible for food stamps. Most families qualifying for case assistance are subject to either a 5 or 2 year lifetime maximum limit to receive. Legal Authority: Title IV A Social Security Act, North Carolina General Statute 108A-27. TOP OF PAGE http://www.co.guilford.nc.us/government/socservices/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Copyright ? 1996-2005 Guilford County Department of Social Services. All Rights Reserved. -- "The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance my deride it, but in the end, there it is." Winston Churchill
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